Towards Technology Structure Mining from Text by Linguistics Analysis

This report introduces the task of Technology-Structure Mining to support Management of Technology. We propose a linguistic based approach for identification of Technology Interdependence through extraction of technology concepts and relations between them. In addition, we introduce Technology Structure Graph for the task formalization. While the major challenge in technology structure mining is the lack of a benchmark dataset for evaluation and development purposes, we describes steps that we have taken towards providing such a benchmark. The proposed approach is initially evaluated and applied in the domain of Human Language Technology and primarily results are demonstrated. We further explain research challenges and our research plan. Unit for Natural Language Processing, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland E-mail: [email protected]. Acknowledgements: The work presented in this report has been funded in part by Science Foundation Ireland under Grant No. SFI/08/CE/I1380 (Lion-2). Copyright c © 2010 by the author. DERI TR 2010-02-15 I